SEMINAR WITH THE THEME: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES USED BY S.C. RETRASIB S.A. IN THE HIGH POWER (200-400 MVA) AND HIGH VOLTAGES (220-400 KV) TRANSFORMER MANUFACTURING

On the 29.09.2010 at Sibiu took place the seminar with the theme: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES USED BY S.C. RETRASIB S.A. SIBIU IN THE HIGH POWER (200-400 MVA) AND HIGH VOLTAGE (220-400 KV) TRANSFORMER MANUFACTURING

For Sibiu it has become a habit the organization of meetings be tween specialists within well known world companies in manufacturing materials and accessories for transformers, designers and transformer manufacturers and the customers of these equipments.

The center of interest, the host and the organizer of these activities is represented by S.C. Retrasib S.A. Sibiu, a growing company where the major investments in endowments, technologies and the continuous training of the staff, proves that, despite being economic crisis, if there is interest, performance can be made.

The attendants to the seminar discussed about items related to the evolution of the materials and technologies used by S.C. Retrasib S.A. Sibiu in the manufacturing of high power transformers.

Presentations were performed by ASTA, a company from Austria, which is a supplier of copper conductor for high power transformers.

A paper was presented by Mr. Wolfgang FENZ, Sales Manager for Romania, w hich described the new copper conductors and also technologies used for coil drying in order to stabilize them.

S.C. TRAFO PROI ECT S.R.L. Bucureşti presented a paper about different types of windings manufactured at El ectroputere Craiova and Retrasib Sibiu for th e 200MVA, 220/110kV autotransformers by using different types of copper conductors and also the evolution of the windings’ technical parameters depending on the type of the conductor.

There were presented different types of conductors used by S.C. Retrasib S.A. for the windings at 250 MVA, 400/110 kV-project Oradea transformers and 400 MVA, 400/220 kV autotransformers-project Lacul Sărat.

The seminar was attended by specialists from TRANSELECTRICA, ELECTRICA, HIDROELECTRICA interested in the evolution of materials and technologies within their field of interest.

This meeting of the d esigners, the manufacturers and the customers of high and very high power transformers was concluded with a visit within S.C. Retrasib S.A. , a company being in a continuous process of modernization.